When you really gettransformation,
its medium as the spoken
word
is suddenly so ... well ... obvious. Whenever you get something
obvious which wasn't obvious before, you see it was always there yet
somehow overlooked entirely, not noticed until that moment. It's like
birds don't notice air - they just fly in it. It's like
fish don't notice water - they just swim in it. Similarly
we human beings don't notice the spoken
word
- we just live in it (yes we do). The spoken
word
is so intrinsic to
who we really are
ie it's so intrinsic to what distinguishes us as a species
from all other species, that in order to share
transformation,
all that's required is you speak.
In this regard, it's been said all that's required for you to share
transformation
is to stand up and, coming from
transformation,
read the
dictionary
or the telephone directory out loud for people. It goes without saying
anyone coming from
transformation
who stands up and reads the
dictionary
or the telephone directory out loud for people, will create a stir
even for people not in the know. They may say things like
"There's something about that guy ... but I just don't know what it
is ...".
Actually that's not as far fetched as it might sound. It's happened.
But here's the thing: when it happens, it
works
best for people already in the know - in other
words,
when preaching to the choir. With people not already in the
know, something else, something more, some more
substance is required. Random alphabetized
words,
names, and numbers won't suffice.
This is when the ideas which comprise the rich body of
distinctions which is
transformation,
come into play. If the spoken
word
is the medium of
transformation,
then the ideas which comprise the rich body of distinctions which is
transformation,
are the product's deliverables. As long as I have it that
"There's something about that guy ... but I just don't know what it is
...", I can't really owntransformation
myself because it's all over there with that guy.
But if I receive the product's deliverables, if I receive
the ideas which comprise the rich body of distinctions which is
transformation,
if I make them my own, then I
transform
my own life.
When I compose these
Conversations For
Transformation,
I'm very, very clear about the men and the women who
blazed the trail before me. It's more than simple respect
for my
source,
for my coaches, for my mentors, and for my family and my friends and my
associates that I acknowledge them this way. It's a matter of
telling the plain truth. For example, I would have serious
doubts about the credibility and the
integrity
of Yuri Gagarin if, while accepting kudos for being the
first man to travel into space, he didn't acknowledge all the people of
Roskosmos, the Soviet space agency, for putting him there.
I may be bold but I'm not a lone gun. Almost everything I bring
forth in these
Conversations For
Transformation
would never have been distinguished if it weren't for an interaction
or a conversation with someone who came before me who spoke
transformation
for me (and, by the way, with me), allowing me to own it
and make it my own.
Transformation
originally came to me from my
source,
from my coaches, from my mentors, and from my family and my friends and
my associates. And yettransformation
isn't them and neither is it me.
Transformation
is no particular persona, figurehead, representative, or
oracle.
Transformation
is the ideas which comprise the rich body of distinctions which is
transformation.
Once you've taken on recreating for yourself the ideas
which comprise the rich body of distinctions which is
transformation,
then
transformation
is yours.
If I'm powerful and effective sharing
transformation
with you, it's because I'm powerful and effective sharing the ideas
which comprise the rich body of distinctions which is
transformation
with you in a way which allows you to recreate them as your own. And
if, along the way, I've also shared my
source,
my coaches, my mentors, and my family and my friends and my associates,
in other
words
the persona from whom I got
transformation
with you, that's a simple courtesy to them. It's a sign of respect. We
all know a player catches the ball and runs with it. But I
say a mensch acknowledges whom he got it from.
I intend secondarily that you get these persona from these
Conversations For
Transformation.
But I intend primarily that you get the ideas. When you get the ideas,
you can then recreate them as your own. When you recreate them as your
own and make them
work
for you, then you have
transformation.
If I sing "And Your Bird Can Sing" for you, I'll be seriously amiss if
I present it as my own composition without crediting The Beatles for
writing it. However once I properly acknowledge The Beatles as the
song's
source,
my intention in singing it for you would be you'd create value for
yourself from my rendition of their music.
This, for me, is also the correct balance between the persona of
transformation
and the ideas of
transformation.